8:33 PM,
Mar. 26, 2014

Tucker Melcher

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Tucker Melcher, a freshman wide receiver on the Nevada football team and a Galena High graduate, is in the intensive care unit at Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center fighting an infection in his brain.

"There's brain swelling. It's a waiting game," an emotional Bubba Melcher, Tucker's dad, said Tuesday. "? The next three days are pretty hit and miss. Nobody knows how it happened."

Bubba Melcher, a longtime area football coach, elite cyclist and former Wolf Pack football player, said a neurosurgeon has seen his son, who remains on a ventilator to prevent aspiration. Tucker has paralysis in ...